Senior Staff Validation Engineer

Senior Staff Validation Engineer

Renesas Electronics

Catania, Italy

Job Description

As a Senior Staff Validation Engineer, you will be part of a multidisciplinary global development team and play a key role in ensuring that every new product fully meets its electrical, functional, and performance specifications before release to production. You will work closely with Design, Applications, Product Engineering, Quality, and System teams to identify, debug, and resolve silicon and system-level issues while supporting aggressive product development and New Product Introduction (NPI) schedules.

For our new Design Center in Catania, we are looking for a hand-on technical leader who thrive on innovation, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and is committed to delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced environment.

Principal Responsibilities

• Drive the validation of analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power management ICs against electrical, functional, and performance specifications.
• Define the overall validation strategy and methodologies, develop comprehensive validation plans for complex products, platforms, or systems.
• Ensure validation coverage, requirements traceability, and compliance with quality and industry standards.
• Identify validation risks and develop mitigation plans to ensure product quality and schedule adherence.
• Drive test automation, validation infrastructure, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality and efficiency of our advanced laboratory for complex post-silicon evaluation.
• Hand-on with design of custom evaluation boards and supporting hardware for silicon characterization.
• Hand-on with development of automated validation frameworks and measurement scripts using Python.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to validation engineers and project teams.
• Assess product readiness, communicate risks, and provide release recommendations to engineering and business leadership.
• Establish validation metrics and monitor quality performance to support data-driven decision making.
• Collaborate closely with Design, Applications, Firmware, Product Engineering, and Quality teams to investigate and resolve silicon and system-level bugs.
• Evaluate silicon validation results, analyze performances at device, board, and system level, identifying, documenting, and tracking silicon and application issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field, with 8-12 years of experience in power conversion, power management, semiconductor applications, or related system design.
• Technical leadership experience driving validation activities across multiple programs and product generations.
• Ability to define validation methodologies, test strategies, and coverage plans for complex mixed-signal and power-management ICs.
• Proven track record of hands-on bench validation, characterization, and debugging of complex hardware systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with laboratory instrumentation, including oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, source meters, digital multimeters, waveform generators, logic analyzers, and thermal characterization equipment.
• Proficiency in Python programming, with experience developing automated test solutions and laboratory automation frameworks.
• Deep experience with board level analog and digital circuit design and expertise for PCB schematic creation 
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute silicon validation activities while delivering high-quality results under demanding project schedules.
• Extensive experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI) activities from first silicon through production release .
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global cross-functional teams.

Important

• Concise and precise communication, both internal and with customers 
• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity within multisite and multicultural environments 
• Flexible to undertake occasional international travel 
• Excellent command of verbal and written English